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January 1, 2013
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May 1, 2009
This chapter discusses the stages of progress method for the assessment of poverty. It tracks households in five countries: four developing countries and the United States. The methodology has seven steps: (i) get together representative community group; ( ...
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January 1, 2008
Since the mid-twentieth century academic and intellectual understandings of the role of mass publics in democracy has been Schumpeterian in its conclusion that extensive political participation by the poor or the working classes would be antithetical to de ...
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January 1, 2008
Social scientists have steadily believed that democracies will more likely exist in richer rather than poorer countries. Analyses of cross-country data have consistently shown democracy to be more prevalent and more stable in countries that have higher-tha ...
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January 1, 2008
The positive effect of higher wealth on democracy was asserted by Lipset (1960: 31): “democracy is related to the state of economic development…the more well-to-do a nation, the greater the chances it will sustain democracy.” Later studies have overwhelmin ...
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January 1, 2007
Caste and patron–client links have been regarded most often as the building blocks of political organization in India, especially in its rural parts (Migdal 1988; Weiner 1989), and caste associations have been thought to be the pre-eminent mode of interest ...
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